ROCKET PIONEERS by Williams, B. and S. Epstein reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III
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ROCKET PIONEERS
by Williams, B. and S. Epstein
New York, 1955: Julian Messner Publishers, Inc., 241 pages, $3.75
This book performs two main tasks: (1) it presents biographies of Congreve, Verne, Tsiolkowski, Goddard and Oberth, and (2) it records the history of the early German space flight society, The American Rocket Society, the Peenemünde rocket development group, and the evolution of the V2 rocket.
Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III